When death puts out our flame the snuff will tell
- DMI number:
- 17049
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- When death puts out our flame the snuff will tell
- Last Line:
- If we were wax or tallow by the smell
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Death and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Francis Quarles
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract w. variants from 'On the Hypocrite'. Quarles, Fancies (1633): 109.
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams [vol. 2] [T170823]
- Page No(s):
- CCCVII.
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams. [Vol. II] [ESTC T130692]
- Page No(s):
- CCCVII.
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Epigrams fresh gather'd from the conversation of the polite [N18487] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- On Characters.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
On the Hypocrite.
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